Published on the 09/05/2013 | Written by Newsdesk
A New Zealand company has moved from reselling to developing its own software that addresses the costs of payroll for small and medium businesses…
Launched on 1 May, Biotime, created by local reseller-turned-developer iDt, is a new cloud time-and-attendance solution specifically aimed at SMBs. iDt has more than 15 years’ experience in the third-party time-and-attendance market and knows that this area can provide major money-saving opportunities for businesses where labour is a major cost. Implementing a time-and-attendance solution helps businesses to ensure payroll accuracy, move away from manual timesheets or punch cards and eliminate costly manual payroll processing.
The company decided to create Biotime because, as iDt Group’s director Hayden Burnett explained, “until now there has been a frustrating lack of time and attendance offerings in the market that offered the right mix of functionality and price for SMB’s.
“The advances in cloud computing and over fifteen years of experience in the industry have allowed us to come up with a solution that we think should deliver the right solution for New Zealand businesses”.
Of iDt Group’s move from reseller to product development Burnett said, “we have always had in-house development capability for customisations and integration, but we made a strategic move towards our own product development last year when we acquired part of an Australian company who had software that had a very strong awards interpretation engine but was outdated in all other facets.
“We’ve used this engine as the core code but the rest of Biotime is completely new. We’ve designed a clean, simple user-interface to try to make using Biotime as intuitive as possible. We’ve added job costing and scheduling functionality and we’ve then worked with Provoke Solutions to architect a cloud infrastructure using Microsoft’s Windows Azure hosting platform,” added Burnett.
Biotime builds on the growing cloud eco-system available to small businesses, adding cloud time-and-attendance to the cloud accounting and payroll solutions that have gained traction over recent years.
“Xero’s success has really raised awareness of the cloud amongst SMBs which is great because it really does offer huge benefits to small businesses. Biotime interfaces directly with all the popular payroll solutions available so now a ‘total cloud’ solution, right from time capture through to payment and general ledger, is available for businesses,” concluded Burnett.
